Thursday, May 17, 2012

Future Tech: Transportation, Energy, Robotics?

It does seem that the technology focus is increasingly on using information and sensors to do real world things better:  like self driving cars, automated factories and energy discovery and productions.  Richard Karlgaard in the WSJ:

Manufacturing? America will own the mid-21st century. Geopolitical instability and rising oil prices will wreck the late 20th-century rationale for outsourcing. Chinese labor costs are rising 20% a year while robotic costs are dropping by 30% a year. Do the math.

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